But read through the television section and you’ll notice the same team keeps showing up.ABC’s biggest regular-season game featured Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
So did the biggest games on CBS, ESPN, ION, NBC and Peacock, USA Network and Amazon Prime Video.CAITLIN CLARK'S LOWEST-RATED PLAYOFF GAME STILL OUTDREW EVERY NON-FEVER FIRST-ROUND BROADCASTThe league highlighted seven platforms and every one had its biggest regular-season audience with the Fever on the court.Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever delivered the biggest WNBA regular-season audience on all seven broadcast platforms during the 2026 season.(Michael Hickey/Getty Images)I’ve written quite a bit about Clark’s impact on WNBA viewership, including how Indiana’s 10 regular-season games on ABC, CBS and NBC averaged twice the audience of the two semifinal openers.
This time, the league supplied a network-by-network breakdown that makes a pretty good case for giving the Fever as many television windows as possible.Here are the biggest regular-season games on the seven platforms noted in the WNBA’s report:The WNBA’s 2026 ratings report highlights seven platforms whose biggest regular-season audiences all came from games featuring Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever.(Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)NBC’s section also included Indiana’s July 12 game against Las Vegas, which drew 2.64 million viewers across NBC and Peacock.
That was the second-most-watched regular-season game of the year, behind the Fever’s August matchup with Chicago.Then there’s ESPN and ABC.The Disney-owned networks had five regular-season games exceed two million viewers and, unsurprisingly, Indiana played in all five.WNBA SUDDENLY WANTS TO STICK TO BASKETBALL AFTER YEARS OF MAKING POLITICS PART OF THE PRODUCTPut yourself in the position of someone buying WNBA television rights.
You’d want Clark on your schedule as often as you could get her.The people selling advertising around those games probably wouldn�...